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Date of source: 28 Jul 2022
ʿAṭiya mocked Christ saying he is not a ‘sayyid’ (venerated leader) as many people refer to him. His statement caused controversy on social media due to the mockery and refusal to use the surname.
Following ʿAṭiya’s statements, lawyer Samīr Ṣabrī submitted a complaint to the Attorney General and...
Reviewed by Samira Eltiby
Translator Samira Eltiby
Date of source: 20 Jul 2022
Many Twitter users announced total support to ʿĪssā and demanded his protection.
As-Sahab Media Foundation, the official media wing of al-Qāʿida, released a bulletin on Monday that included a death threat against the Egyptian journalist, following his statements on historical military Muslim...
Reviewed by Samira Eltiby
Translator Samira Eltiby
Date of source: 20 Jul 2022
His Eminence Bishop Armiyā, Head of the Coptic Orthodox Cultural Center, affirmed that the Egyptian Family House [Bayt al-ʿĀʾila] aims to raise awareness, build bridges of love between Muslims and Christians and instill a culture of citizenship.
He added: “Egypt is a state of law, as an...
Reviewed by Samira Eltiby
Translator Samira Eltiby
Date of source: 1 Sep 2022
The West Must Beware Rusdie’s Trap
Controversy Over ‘Satanic Verses’ Ignores Islamic Intellectual Tradition
The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie has been the focus of intense media coverage, drawn by riots in Pakistan and India and the publicity of a promotional tour about to take place in the...
Date of source: 1 Jul 2022
This book is part of the intellectual testament of Emilio Platti, in which he exposes some of his views about a highly exciting debate about the origins of Islam. This debate already started in the nineteenth century and flared up in the last fifty years.
His book sheds light on a fundamental...
Date of source: 1 Jul 2022
Dominican Father Dr. Platti studied theology and oriental studies at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium. In 1972 he joined IDEO. Between 1980 and 2018 he taught at the Catholic University of Leuven where he focused on the relations between Christianity and Islam.
Platti was always very...
Date of source: 28 May 2022
Between the civil and the spiritual, how does the church control the marital life of the Copts?
The cries of Mary, who almost lost her life with a husband who uses drugs, according to her statements, summoned to the Coptic community one of the most important Coptic crises in the past two decades;...
Reviewed by Salma AlHafi
Translator Salma AlHafi
Date of source: 25 Aug 2022
Mr. Bas Belder, a member of the European Parliament for the SGP between 1999 and 2019, presented a statement for our webinar on Inclusive Citizenship on September 26, 2020, quoting Coptic political activists living in the West. Anglican Archbishop Dr. Mouneer Hanna Anis (Munīr Ḥannā Anīs) was...
Date of source: 2 Aug 2022
Egyptian Evangelical Leader Reverend Zaki Confirmed as 'Agent' of al-Sisi Government in the US
Photo Credit: Christian Broadcasting Network NEWS PROVIDED BY Coptic Solidarity Aug. 2, 2022 WASHINGTON, Aug. 2, 2022 /Christian Newswire/ -- Coptic Solidarity has obtained documentation confirming...
Date of source: 24 Aug 2022
Rev. Dr. Andrea Zakī (b.1960), Coptic Evangelical (Presbyterian) pastor and head of the Protestant Churches of Egypt, is a well-known Egyptian media personality for over seventeen years. This overview of his views throughout the years has been made in response to the verbal criticism of Coptic...
Date of source: 24 Aug 2022
Scope of Agency under FARA
The Foreign Agents Registration Act (“FARA”) is an important tool used to combat foreign influence in the United States. It creates transparency by requiring certain agents of foreign principals who are engaged in political activities or other activities specified under...
Date of source: 25 Sep 2020
1. Trying to find a common ground on the question of Inclusive Citizenship
1-1. Using the same terms for the same realities.
If conquering other countries, imposing one’s language and culture on people with different languages and cultures, profiting from the wealth of the conquered, imposing one...
Date of source: 8 Dec 2020
In this presentation, we will try to examine the concept of citizenship from the Islamic Sharīʿa standpoint. What is presented here will provide a real image of the concept of citizenship based on the first two primary sources; the Qur’an and the Prophetic traditions. However, we should admit the...
Date of source: 12 Aug 2022
The draft text of Dr. Kamāl Burīqaʿ ʿAbd al-Salām, “Comparing inclusive Citizenship in Egypt with Europe Ways of Promoting Citizenship and a Response to Bas Belder,” was read by Fr. Dr. Giuseppe Scattolin which resulted in a discussion about the Covenant of ʿUmar, also known as the Capitulations of...
Date of source: 10 Jun 2022
The UK government announced that the conference aims to strengthen international efforts for the purpose of guaranteeing freedom of religion or belief for all, with the participation of ministers, religious leaders, parliamentarians, and civil society organizations.
The conference will be chaired...
Reviewed by Maryam Boujarfaoui
Translator Maryam Boujarfaoui
Date of source: 3 Mar 2022
The church said in a statement on Thursday: “The departure of our dear son, Andrew Michel, provoked feelings in so many of us, as we can see on the social media pages, each one wrote according to his own vision. Therefore, we want to make it clear that the church and servants have never failed in...
Reviewed by Maryam Boujarfaoui
Translator Maryam Boujarfaoui
Date of source: 3 Jan 2022
The tour began with a visit to Saint Shinūda Cathedral, then a visit to the Catholic Church, and lastly to the Evangelical Church in El-Gouna, where the delegation congratulated the Copts on their Christmas celebrations, wishing abiding fellowship and love between the two elements of the nation.
Al...
Reviewed by Salma AlHafi
Translator Salma AlHafi
Date of source: 12 Jun 2022
Q: Can you introduce yourself?
A: I have been involved in various refugee situations. I’m still quite involved in Cairo as well, and just yeah, just do lots of different things in different areas of work. Now I am very much involved in immigration law, the topic of my PhD thesis is refugee-led...
Date of source: 12 Apr 2022
Q: Can you introduce yourself?
A: I was an Arabic teacher at the British Council. I also studied at Madrid University, Edinburg University, Lund University and Manchester, Michigan, and Beaten University, and worked at the Foreign Office. This was my experience during the 1990s. Then I became a...
Date of source: 27 Mar 2022
Priest Tawāḍrūs Riyāḍ, the Pope’s commissioner for the “Nativity of Christ ” cathedral, said that the President’s choice of building the mosque and the church as the first two institutions in the New Administrative Capital is a great decision because religious institutions are the beginning for...
Reviewed by Hana Ashraf
Translator Hana Ashraf
Date of source: 26 Mar 2022
The president of Asyūṭ University revealed the continuation of the forum’s program amid an enthusiastic atmosphere of youth, which is dominated by friendship and harmony among all students, which is the goal of organizing the forum. The forum is held under the title "Peoples against extremism and...
Reviewed by Hana Ashraf
Translator Hana Ashraf
Date of source: 14 Mar 2022
Muʾmin ʿUthmān, Head of the Museums Sector at the Supreme Council of Antiquities, explained that the exhibition continues until June 30, 2022, to show the stations of the journey of the Holy Family in Egypt, and the life of Christ from the promise of his birth until his return to Palestine.
He...
Reviewed by Hana Ashraf
Translator Hana Ashraf
Date of source: 26 May 2022
The lecture sheds the light on the city of Rashid – a cosmopolitan city and a meeting point of civilizations and ethnicities. It is a real example of religious tolerance and harmony; due to its commercial significance and major transit point for trade movement or even for warfare that was...
Reviewed by Hana Ashraf
Translator Hana Ashraf
Archeologist suggests the name “Museum of Peace” for exhibition halls at Saint Catherine’s Monastery
Date of source: 21 Feb 2022
Therefore, Dr. Rayḥān has suggested the name “Museum of Peace” as its contents embrace different religions and civilizations. The museum’s contents signify peace, according to Dr. Rayḥān, by including Jewish, Christian and Islamic symbolism. It contains the “Codex Sinaiticus” manuscript (also known...
Reviewed by J. Wrathall
Translator J. Wrathall
Date of source: 28 Jan 2022
Fr. Paula, Metropolitan of Tanta, was the last to join the list of demanding bishops exactly after he issued a statement bearing the number 7 in 2022 on the dress code for churchgoers. The bishop decided to oblige his churches to provide intensive educational doses on modesty and the application of...
Reviewed by Salma AlHafi
Translator Salma AlHafi
Date of source: 11 Feb 2022
Rubenstein stated: “one of the reasons I focused on the Arian controversy was that, until its conclusion, Jews and Christians could debate with each other on topics such as the divinity of Christ and the true path to redemption: there was difference but also a clear closeness. But with the...
Reviewed by J. Wrathall
Translator J. Wrathall
Date of source: 28 Feb 2022
A father, his brother, and his son were attacked and killed with automatic weapons as they worked on the fields, before being mutilated with a cleaver. Their names were Yūsuf Yūsuf, ʿAfīfī Yūsuf and Bushrī Yūsuf.
ʿIṣām Yūsuf, son of the victim, said that his father, brother and uncle were attacked...
Reviewed by J. Wrathall
Translator J. Wrathall
Date of source: 26 Feb 2022
Ṣabrī clarified that, although the niqāb is sacred in the minds of many Egyptians, some have recently misused it to commit several crimes, specifically terrorist ones. The Administrative Court released a verdict supporting the decision by the President of Cairo University to ban the niqāb for staff...
Reviewed by J. Wrathall
Translator J. Wrathall
Date of source: 8 Feb 2022
The amended law imposes a prison sentence of no less than five years for anyone who “circumcises a girl by removing, changing, distorting or injuring her genitalia”. The punishment for causing permanent disfigurement is at least seven years in prison, while causing death receives at least ten. The...
Reviewed by J. Wrathall
Translator J. Wrathall
Date of source: 12 Jan 2022
His Eminence Bishop Abūllū, was accompanied by a large delegation of fathers, servants of God, youth and children. He was also accompanied by Father Ṣalīb, the priest of Abū Sīfīn’s Church in Old Cairo, and the church’s representative to the Antiquities Authority. The delegation was received by the...
Reviewed by Ragheb Chaiben
Translator Ragheb Chaiben
Date of source: 29 Jun 2022
It is common knowledge that the Arab World is the centre of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, since North African countries were first Roman, Byzantine, Husseinite, Ottoman, Berber, Arab and Muslim etc., before gaining independence. This great “melting pot”, without a shadow of doubt, was not...
Date of source: 19 Apr 2022
Shaykh Aḥmad al-Ṭayyib wondered how Muslims, who cannot stand watching their Christian coworkers eating or drinking or watching Christians eating at restaurants during Ramadan, can watch their children, who aren’t obliged to fast, eating? Or do they also forbid them from eating and drinking?!
A few...
Reviewed by Hana Ashraf
Translator Hana Ashraf
Date of source: 22 Dec 2021
The history of Christianity in Egypt dates back to 2000 years. According to the Christian belief, Egypt was one of the first countries to receive the message a few years after Christ’s resurrection. Then, Christianity spread across Egypt, Nubia, and Northern Sudan.
Dīnā Jirjis Fawzī, a French...
Reviewed by Hana Ashraf
Translator Hana Ashraf
Date of source: 29 Jun 2022
Until 1986 the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS) in Egypt included religious affiliation in their censuses, computing Coptic Christians to make up 5.87 percent of population in 1986. The Coptic Orthodox Church and Coptic activists, have since the start of the census in...
Date of source: 27 Jun 2022
Dr. Hudā started the conversation with an explanation about the role of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt’s recent history. The Muslim Brotherhood was suppressed during the days of President Jamāl ʿAbd al-Nāṣir (1952-1970). President Anwar al-Sādāt (1970-1981) gave Islamists more space, including the...
Date of source: 8 Dec 2021
Zakī is a master's student at the University of Bologna in Italy. He was arrested in February 2020 after he landed at Cairo’s international airport on a visit to see his family. He is accused of “spreading false news” in relation to an article he wrote about the situation of Christians in Egypt....
Reviewed by Ragheb Chaiben
Translator Ragheb Chaiben
Date of source: 9 Dec 2021
On Friday, December 10, Our Lady of Arabia will be consecrated by the Bahraini authorities in al-ʿAwālī, that is located in al-Manāma (capital of Bahrain), to be the largest Roman Catholic cathedral in the Arabian Peninsula. The opening ceremony will be supervised by Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle,...
Reviewed by Ragheb Chaiben
Translator Ragheb Chaiben
Date of source: 9 Apr 2022
Reverend Dāwūd Khalīl said that all Egyptians, regardless of their religion, whether Islam or Christianity, live together peacefully and celebrate Ramadan. He stressed that when distributing meals, they do not differentiate between Muslims and Christians. He believes that such acts represent the...
Reviewed by Ragheb Chaiben
Translator Ragheb Chaiben
Date of source: 30 May 2022
Rabbi Moshe Peleg declares that he wants peace between Jews and Palestinians, Christians and Muslims alike. Every human being was created in the image of God "If I can promote peace I will do."
"When I was young, I was active in left-wing Israeli political movements that advocated peace with the...
Date of source: 23 May 2022
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Emerging Perspectives on Intercultural and Interreligious Relations
Dialogue Across Borders is a database of summary translations of Arabic newspaper articles with references to their sources about intercultural and interreligious relations, focusing primarily but not exclusively on Muslim-Christian relations. The database also contains articles with editorial analysis and interviews on the subject.